To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The church must always show compassion, always.
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.